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The former CEO of the Post Office offered a dubious definition of leadership during her evidence last week at the Post Office IT Horizon scandal inquiry. Paula Vennells loved the organisation she worked for so much that she did not think she was responsible for all the decisions. She said she was too trusting.
The final report on the Infected Blood Inquiry is damning. Victims were deliberately harmed and lied to. There was a cover up to conceal the risks associated with the blood treatment. There was a failure to listen to the patients. There was a systemic breach of duty of care by health care professionals, doctors, the government, the NHS and civil servants.
"The situation from the time when medicines were limited and costly to now might have been better but the invisible stigma persists in the society," said Daxa Patel, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1998.
The Corrections Department didn't investigate when the bail bracelet of a man accused of stabbing a West Auckland dairy owner went offline about an hour and a half before the attack.
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By RNZ The Corrections Department didn’t investigate when the electronic monitoring device of a man accused of stabbing a West Auckland dairy owner went...